Schoenherr, Lane, and Armaly - The Purpose of Senatorial Grandstanding During Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

ReadMe File created by Jessica Schoenherr, Elizabeth Lane, and Miles Armaly

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### To replicate the public opinion estimates ###
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# NOTE: This is already in the "SLAConfirmationHearingsData.dta" file -- this is strictly if you want to re-collect that data

1 - Download Kastellec, Lax, and Phillips (2010) data from the Harvard Dataverse for estimates from SDOC (1981) to SS (2009): https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IJ2OQJ

You will need everything in this file -- the megapolls for each nominee + the poststratification files + the state-level data

2 - Download Kastellec, Lax, Malecki, and Phillips (2015) data from the Harvard Dataverse for estimates for EK (2010): https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/29259

3 - Use Roper iPoll data to get estimates for CT (Fielded August 8-11, 1991) -- data is contained in this file (Thomas_megapoll.dta)

4 - Should end up with files for 11 different nominees -- O'Connor, Rehnquist (CJ), Bork, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Roberts, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan

5 - Drop any polls that occurred after the first day of the hearings

6 - Run "PublicOpinionEstimatesMRP.R"

This is a modified version of Kastellec, Lax, and Phillips's (2010) original models

7 - Merge this data into "SLAConfirmationHearingsData.dta"

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### To replicate the models used in the paper ###
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# NOTE: Data for O'Connor to Kagan originally provided by Dion Farganis and Justin Wedeking
# NOTE: Data for Gorsuch provided by Ryan Owens and Justin Wedeking
# NOTE: Data for Kavanaugh provided by Jessica Schoenherr, Elizabeth Lane, and Miles Armaly

1 - Open "SLAConfirmationHearingsData.dta"

2 - Open "ModelsAndStatisticalTests.do"

3 - Run "ModelsAndStatisticalTests.do" on "SLACOnfirmationHearingsData.dta"
